WeChat account with a new approach: a good interpretation Director Neil Blomcamp once shocked the global film industry with "The Ninth District", and he was an amateur before he filmed "The Ninth District" He has shot many short films, such as "Val River Tetra", "Aliens in Johannesburg", "Robot Fly Temporary Worker" and several other sci-fi works. Through his other works, we can see that Neil Blomkan Pu is good at shooting "dirty" sci-fi movies. Later, he was known by the famous director Peter, and he started his dream of directing. Due to the withdrawal of funds from the film party, three years later, he won the Oscar for Best Adaptation Award for "The Ninth District" and embarked on the official career. Director's Path.
01
Problem solving The
author thinks that many friends who have watched "The Ninth District" must be looking forward to the sequel "The Tenth District". I remember that the prawn in the film said that I will be back in three years, but I have waited one after another. No news for three years. According to gossip, because the director made several mediocre films later, the investor gave up the filming of the sequel "The Tenth District", but the director set up his own studio (Oat Studio) and
started his old business. The production of the short film may be to prove his strength and win the favor of investors in this way, so his short film "RAKKA" (Chinese translation "Raka") became popular as soon as it came out. The Nine Districts" and "Raka" are linked together to be interpreted for everyone.
Why should the title be taken like this? Because after watching "Raka", I feel that the content and effect of this short film are very similar to the content of "The Tenth District". It is like a test practice by the director before making a big movie, but the practice has already been done. It exceeds the level of our domestic blockbuster.
"Raka" tells the story of the lizard people created by aliens who came to the earth, began to colonize the earth, carried out semi-robotic transformation of the native inhabitants of the earth, enslaved human beings and carried out large-scale experimental research, the ground is full of Bones, the earth has become hell, but there are still a small number of people doing the last resistance.
The script of the film is basically what the sequel to "The Ninth District" wants to express. The sequel to "The Ninth District" is also the prawn who moved in to rescue the soldiers three years later, punishing the mistakes that the earthlings once made, and human beings will be transformed into insects The appearance of the clan prawns, the surviving human beings were kept in captivity in the tenth district, which is also the colonization of the people of the earth.
02 There are currently three types of sci-fi films in
"The Ninth District"
, humans and robots, humans and aliens, and genetic engineering. Most of the works about aliens are either humans being colonized by alien civilizations, or aliens being colonized by aliens. Human colonization, except for the highly innovative sci-fi "Arrival", it is rare for two civilizations to coexist, because these sci-fi films are invisibly following the dark forest law in "Three-Body Problem". Once a civilization has the ability to discover Another civilization, in order to ensure its own survival, must first kill the other party. The explosion of technology and the chain of suspicion determine this core theory.
And "District Ninth" also belongs to an anomaly. In order to make the story more real, the film tells the story of aliens coming to earth to take refuge in the form of a documentary. Human beings face the panic of higher civilization and finally take in them. A series of contradictions, from an individual point of view, the film is a process of a person from being arrogant and rude to aliens to becoming an alien.
In a situation where the theme of alien aggression has been used badly, the reason why "District 9" can stand out is that the director let the original higher civilization take refuge under the roof of the lower civilization, and bluntly transplanted the contradiction between classes between people and foreigners. On the stars, why did the aliens win in the end? We applauded from the standpoint of aliens. This is also the director's brilliant point. It allows the audience at the bottom to find a sense of identity. The reason why the ninth district chose Johannesburg,
Because this is a slum, those oppressed aliens are metaphors for the lower class, and those arrogant MNU people are metaphors for the upper class, this way of viewing the film is no longer a simple science fiction film, it includes both racial discrimination and inclusion. conflicts between classes. The director's concern for humanities makes the film take off the cloak of entertainment criticism, and the spiritual core is sublimated to a higher level.
The film is not forcibly preaching. The most touching thing in the film is that after seeing his companions being shot, the prawn kneels in front of the head of the alien agency who is like the forced demolition of the city management. This scene really pierces the hearts of the audience, and the upper class will always I don't understand the pain points of people at the bottom. The director directly let the starring Wikus go through the process of changing from human to prawn, from appearance to heart. The essence here is the director's question to the upper class, not like "Inverse World". Baba is talking about class issues, but turning an upper-class person into a lower-class person to empathize with.
03
"La"
film "La" Although it is short, but internal organs and taste. The director divided the film into three acts in strict accordance with the standard format of the script. The first act established the colonized worldview through monologue, the second act introduced the conflict between humans and lizardmen through the characters Amir and Nosh, and the third act passed The siege of the Lizardmen is the climax of the film.
Aliens are no longer as benevolent as Spielberg's "Encounter of the Third Kind", they turned humans into pests, took away human history and culture, and enslaved humans as hosts for their parasitic offspring. The prawns who want to come back for revenge are exactly the same.
If we simply say that the plot of the film is really mediocre, but the novel settings in the story, as well as the shocking special effects, and the creation of a thrilling atmosphere, are no inferior to all aspects of "Alien". The lizard people modified the earth's atmosphere to methane gas, causing the ecosystem to deteriorate completely. Human beings are facing extinction. There are nano-liquid like asphalt everywhere, and they invade the human cerebral cortex to control their thoughts. Humans design brain barriers, predict the future and other new world views .
He also added thinking about human nature. Vader once said, "Losing human nature loses a lot, losing animal nature loses everything." When people face the problem of survival, if they still worry about moral constraints, they will be extinct by animal civilization, because the natural world Among them, those unscrupulous animals tend to live the longest, and the same is true for survival in the universe. If you are soft-hearted, you will become a test product of the lizard people. The war between civilizations is life or death.
In addition, the director's studio also released the second volume of the short film: "Firebase", a supernatural film based on the Vietnam War. In fact, it wants to convey the idea of anti-war, not that the immortal River God defeated the US military. It is the immortal spirit of the Vietnamese residents that overwhelmed the U.S. military. Since this film has little to do with "Raqqa", "The Ninth District" and the sequel, the author will not interpret this film, and can only expect the first film. Three volumes aired.
View more about Rakka reviews
